id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,mlocked
12940,Some mpeg4 videos will not play on Raspberry Pi,Peter Bennett,Peter Bennett,"Videos created with Brosoft DVD Ripper do not play on Raspberry Pi.
They remain on ""Please wait"" indefinitely. On amd64 frontend they play fine.
See forum topic:\\
https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1798
Log shows: \\
Many of these messages: \\
`Waited 29807ms for video buffers LLAAAAAAAPPP` \\
Then many of these messages: \\
`Waited 100ms for decoder to pause` \\
Then these messages continue until you kill the frontend:\\
`Waited 10ms for decoder lock` \\
Investigation:\\
Copying the mp4 to a new mp4 with ffmpeg - file still will not play.\\
`ffmpeg -i rcarballo.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy rcarballo_copy.mp4`\\
Copying the file to an mkv with mkvmerge - file plays OK.\\
`mkvmerge -o rcarballo_mkv.mkv rcarballo.mp4`\\
Copy the mkv file back to an mp4 with ffmpeg - file plays OK.\\
`ffmpeg -i rcarballo_mkv.mkv -acodec copy -vcodec copy rcarballo_mkv_mp4.mp4`\\
Link to sample video\\
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8pgi6dqey4oxuuy/wont_play.mp4?dl=0
",Bug Report - General,closed,minor,unknown,Ports - rPi,0.28.0,medium,Won't Fix,,,0